Beware - Elements (8.0) Auto Analyzer runs on startup

No, that has not fixed the problem.

I have removed the codec packs and Quicktime and installed the correct version of Quicktime that you suggest.  I disabled background rendering but do not know how to disable auto-analyse.

I also get this message when Elements boots.  I have to cick about 20 times before I can get to the menu.

So, the autoanalyzer has got many of you bogged down...myself included...and you want to shut it off and prevent it from starting with your computer again.  Here's 2 ways to do so: 

#1: Best way: You can disable it by going to Adobe Organizer->Edit->Preferences->Auto-Analyzer Options...->Uncheck "Run Aanlyzer on Start Up"  (This will take care of the "bog" at start up.  You may want to also uncheck the box above it titled "Analyze All Media in Catalog Automatically" which disables the auto-analyzer from running when you launch Elements Organizer, but then it won't automatically tag your photos or splice your video at start up or when you launch Elements Organizer...this may be something you want it to do or you may not...I'll explain later in post and some additional settings you may want to know about that relate to the auto analyzer function).

#2:  Change your Windows startup menu.  To do so, in Windows 7, you can click Start, type "msconfig" in search box and hit enter.  When the "System Configuration" window pops up, you need to select the "Startup" Tab at the top, then under the column "Startup Item" you need to find "Elements Auto Analyzer" and uncheck the box.  Then click "Apply" in the bottom right corner of the Window.  Congrats!  It is now disabled from automatically running when you boot up your computer, but with a catch.  If you EVER launch Elements Organizer again, and you didn't change the setting in the programs preferences(see option #1 above), then the program will reset itself in the startup menu and you will be back to square one where it is running at the boot of Windows every time again.

Before I explain any further, there are a couple things you need to understand about this program, how it works, and how it can help you sort out 'flawed' pics and videos.

First off, Elements Organizer is working as an application that can bring your photos into one place and potentially help you sort them...if you want it to(hence the basic idea for the "auto-analyzer".  Your pictures are wherever you saved them on your computer.  Elements Organizer DOES NOT alter those files...that's what the "Edit" option is for.  It is your choice to "save" or "save as" if you edit.

"Watch Folders..." (settings found under "file"-> "Watch Folders...") designates actual places(folders)on your PC you want Elements Organizer to look for photos/videos if more are added, scanned, ect.  This is where it looks for your pics/vids automatically.  So if you have your 'photo folders' listed here, you will automatically be able to see them in Elements Organizer.  So, for example, if you create a new folder on the desktop and then dump new photos from your camera into them, they won't automatically show up in Elements Organizer until you add the new folder to your 'Watch" list.  You can manually add them to your viewable collection in Organizer by going to "File"->"Get Photos and Videos"->"From Files and Folders"->then select the location of the photos(in this example, the new folder on the desktop).  It is worth noting, that when you are in the "Watch Folders" options, you will likely want it to add the photos automatically to Organizer, if so, then make sure that you have the appropriate bubble selected at the bottom of screen that says, "Automatically Add Files to Organizer".  You can, however, just have Organizer notify you, instead, that you have new files added in your 'watched' folders.  My recommendation for simplicity sake is to set things to automatically add the files to Organizer.

Catalogs-Think of this as your photo books...basically this is where you can designate groups of photos that you want to be together for whatever reason so you can find relevant photos later.  Elements Organizer automatically creates one catalog...the default catalog that shows everything.  You CAN have pictures in more than one catalog.  Here is an example:  Imagine you go on vacation to Las Vegas and take 2000 photos on your trip, but some of the photos are from when you went to visit the Hoover Dam one day, and the Grand Canyon on another day.  You could logically create a catalog of photos labeled "Vegas Trip" and have all 2000 pictures in that one catalog, and then in 2 other catalogs labeled "Grand Canyon" and "Hoover Dam", you catalog your pictures from each place respectively.  You may only have 300 of your 2000 total pictures that were taken at the Grand Canyon, and 200 of the 2000 total pics at the Hoover Dam.  This would allow you to have an easy way to pull up only the Grand Canyon pics if that is all you want to show off to your family, make a slideshow from, back up, burn a dvd, create a collage, ect.  The same pics that are in the "Grand Canyon" catalog or the "Hoover Dam" catalog, are also in the 'Vegas Trip" catalog.  Note: this DOES NOT copy your photos on your hard drive or put them in duplicate spots consuming extra space, but instead, pulls them from their locations on the hard drive and allows you to group them together for whatever relevance you deem fit.  This is an especially handy feature for photographers to keep track of wedding shoots for different clients, senior pictures, graduations, concerts, ect.

So back to the topic of the 'Analyzer'...if you let it do its thing, it will put smart tags on your pictures based on the filters you have checked in your 'auto-analyzer options" that you want the "analyzer" to evaluate.  Those things include audio, brightness and contrast, motion, shake, blur, face, object motion, and even people's faces.  The cruddy part is that it is looking at your photos for you, determining if they are sharp, blurred, ect and allowing you a way to get rid of the 'bad' pics, but also find the sharp in focue pics you may want to use for a project.  So, ultimately, the auto-analyzer is potentially going to help you and the workflow of your photo projects.  Example:  If you wanted to pull out the "Grand Canyon" catalog and quickly make a dvd of it, you could easily filter down to the sharp infocus shots that are high contrast by selecting the appropriate smart tages

I hope this helps clear up the confusion.

  I have this same thing happening in Elements 9.0.  Apparently, Adobe doesn't care.  It was running amok with the processor and heat it up by 20C.  I haven’t been able to run down the problems with my system until now.  Since I turned off the process my system is way faster and my CPU temp is staying down by the 20C.

I used 10 minutes just to start task manager and take this photo after a windows startup. I turn it off for now, Picasa do this much faster. It is possible to check a box in order to make it run when the computer is idle, but I WASNT IDLE for sure. It made me idle.

To turn off Auto Analyser at Windows start up simply do the following :

1) "Search" within widows for : "msconfig" (or use the  "Run" command and type "msconfig")

2) Type "continue" when prompted

3) This will open the system configurator for Windows

4) Select the "Start up " tab

5) Remove the tick against "Elements Auto Analyser"  and click "Apply"

You may see other unnecessary applications that are being started automatically, but go carefully in disabling applications that may be necessary to your system!

On your next re-boot any de-selected applications will not automatically start up

I am new to this and have not used this forum but need to as the problem of

autoanalyzer eating up my hard drive activity is serious.  I tried

Elements Organizer>Organizer>  Edit/Prefs

but fouind NO AUTOANALYZER options!!  I have the Student

Version is this not available??  How can I control this beast?

Thankyou anyone with time and knowledge to help me.

Hello,

I also find the AutoAnalyzer startup thing a severe miss by Adobe. I see it eating up 60 to 80 MB at startup for 10 to 15 minutes every time I boot. I already wait long enough for my disk light to stop flashing before starting my day. Thanks for the instructions on how to disable it.

I must not be the target for this feature because I don't understand the value at all. When it comes to entry level video, Adobe would do well to OPTIMIZE its existing feature set. Unfortunately, the message that "it now works they way it should have originally" is not one any marketer relishes.

One example: my 4 minute video project takes about 10 minutes to load every time I open PrE4. As I've posted before, I have 2GB of RAM and a dual core processor. A little weak for PrE 8 perhaps but not for version 4.

How someone thought that getting in the middle of EVERY boot cycle of a Windows machine was a good thing for an entry-level editing program (i.e. it should not expect to be installed on a dedicated editing station) completely baffles me.

Steve

Thanks everyone for your observations and comments in this thread ... it helped me resolve this problem.  Now I have a new question ... before I found this solution, Elements Auto Analyzer ran for several days and consumed several GB of hard drive space generating who knows what (one of these threads postulated it took video files and turned them into snipets).  Where are all of these files stored?  I have been trying to find them (particularly those video file snipets) but I have not found them.  Nor could I find them by opening Elements.  Anyone know where this junk was stored so I can delete it and get my hard drive space back?

Ozpeter,

I've read the entire thread (to date), but am doing my reply here - your initial post.

Personally, I find this scary. As with you, I do not want modules going rogue on me. I go so far as to turn OFF any/all auto-update "features" in every program, that I install. I also turn OFF, when possible, the "look for updates and await your input." I will update any/everything at my leisure, not some timer in some program. I lost an entire new installation on a brand new workstation, because Logitec Set-Point decided to update during the installation of an NLE. When it did this, I lost my entire OS, plus all programs. It even killed Ghost, and System Restore. It killed my LAN and rendered one of my NIC connections unusable. It cost me a new MoBo, a complete low-level reformat of the system HDD and a week of lost installations! Guess which program will NEVER be on any computer, even if I use Logitec devices.

Now, from your and ATR's comments, I am still not certain what this "utiltiy" does, but it seems to analyze AV Assets and then attempt to automatically do something like Scene Detection. Is that correct?

I cannot imagine what Adobe was thinking with this. I have to admit that I do not use Organize/Organizer in my PrE 4 installation, so there could be things, even back then, that I am just unaware of. I use Bridge (from my CS2 Production Studio Premium) instead. Maybe I am just in the dark on what Organize/Organizer did, and certainly do not know what the newer versions might now do.

Still, and it's not yet hear Halloween, I am scared - very scared. Maybe I should be glad that I only have PrE 4. All it did was kill CS2 Production Stuido and all of its apps. on installation. A Repair Install fixed those. Gonna' keep what I've got, and keep reading of your trials and tribulations.

Thank you for reporting. You and ATR are doing a great service to all PrE users.

Hunt

Ozpeter

I have not gotten a chance to look at the issue that you present and try it, but does disabling the feature at the Organizer level (see AutoAnalyzer tab at bottom of Elements Organizer) have any impact on what you are experiencing? I will try looking at this as soon as I can.

I had to disable that AutoAnlyzer feature in Premiere Elements 8 because it kept automatically spliting my video into clips when I did not want that to happen. However, you can still right click you media in the Organizer and select Run AutoAnalyzer.

For quite some time (before Premiere Elements 8), I have been running my WIndows XP SP3 with all the Start Up programs off, except Microsoft Services.

ATR